The installation is based on Bob Dylan's son called "Sara", and is dealing with the different phases of the couple presented in this song, as a reflection on different anonymous couples, regarding the home space as the reference and playground.
The installation is divided into three small spaces, each one telling the story of the couple in a different stage, while in each part a different singer is singing the song which is projected in a video on one of the house elements that are in the space.
On the walls of each part are hanged the photographs of Saras and of Bobs i chose. Each space has a dominant color on which are all the elements in it are colored.
This is the space reflecting the couple after the breakup- the stage of the song itself. The space is all white.
On two parallel walls facing each other are hanged photographs of Saras and Bobs, all siting in their homes, waiting.
On the middle wall there's a sentence written with white sewing pins - "Everything breathes again the tablecloth is white", and underneath it hanged a cupboard inside which a video of the song is projected. The singes is Joana Levine, a young american singer, who''s filmed singing in a huge industrial barn, while she's trying to create herself an intimate corner, which is almost impossible to do in such a space. she's dressed in a white dress with a long "tail" going far behind her. The dress is hanged on a chair in the space, while the "tail" keeps on out of the two walls space.
The installation is dealing with the relation between the home, private space and the mutual life of a couple especially around expectations. The starting point is Bob Dylan's song called "Sara".
When i was little i used to hear this song and imagine Sara and Bob sitting each in their room, waiting for the other.
And now, i wanted to find my Saras and Bobs- anonymous people, women called Sara and men called Bob, and i took pictures of them- each one sitting in his\her room, waiting for something else.
They all gave me a tiny look at their intimate space and to document their sitting and expecting for something i could only imagine.
And as the freezing of waiting, so does the camera, extracting even more this freezing. And from their spaces and houses i move to the space of the gallery- creating corners of rooms each in a different color and objects remaining from this memory of freezing the time in a personal space.Biography:
Tamara Erde was born in 1982 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Tamara received a Bachelor's degree of Design in Visual Communication and Photography, specializing in Video and Motion Graphics, from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Tamara takes part in various programs and events worldwide, while experimenting with a wide range of audiovisual arts: the performing arts, video, and stills photography. She currently works as director of documentary movies and creator of video installations in Tel-Aviv and New York. Tamara is interested in the grey areas between the various arts: "I aspire to tell my stories and share my thoughts in what I feel is the most appropriate medium for any particular project". This explains why she has been working on various projects ranging from documentary films to installations combining still photographs, videos, sculptures and movement.Cinema
"Very Heavy Stones" – director, director of photography. 2009
(50 min, documentary).
"Alone is Alone" - director, d.o.p. 2009 (Music video for Hadara Levin)
“Morning Glory” – Director, director of Photogrpahy. 2008
"Rober"- director, director of photography. 2007 (20 min. documentary).
"Breakdown"(dir. Asaf Saban) – Art direction and set design. 2006
"Declare independence" design in Michele Gondry’s clip for Bjork 2007
Exhibitions and Festivals
May 2009 - "Very Heavy Stones" in Napolidanza Film Festival, Italy.
May 2009 - director in KinoDynamique project, Vienna, Austria.
March 2009 - "Rober" in NewFilmmakers Spring Festival, Anthology film archives, New-York,NY.
March 2009 - "Festival VideoDance de Breuille" - "Elbowless" video, and dance photography exhibition, France.
February 2009 - "Saras and Bobs" Installation in P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
January 2009 - Secret Art TLV in Bank Leumi auction, Tel-Aviv.
November 2008 - Group exhibitiion, Micro Museum, Brooklyn
November 2008 - Group exhibition A-Forest Gallery (london and NY)
November 2008 - Group exhibition Aeon Logic Gallery, Brooklyn,NYA
October 2008 - Group exhibition "Artishowk", Tel-Aviv.
October 2008 - Participant in "Attitude" 4, Video festival in Macedonia.
October 2008 - Winner to Group exhibition ArtoConecto, Miami.
August 2008 – Group exhibition in Junto Gallery, Brooklyn.
August 2008 – Participant in ARTcamp resiendcy, New-York.
July 2008 - Group exhibition in ExitArt Gallery, New-York.
January 2008 - Group exhibition in JAC gallery, NY
January 2007 – Group exhibition in NYSG Gallery, New-York.
Work Experience
Photographer
Freelance photographer for fashion catalogues and interior design
First photographer's assistant KZNY studio, NY (2007)
Designer
Clutch studio for Animation and Broadcast design (2008)
Zarmon Goldman publicity(2006)
Other Projects in progress
Black Forest – Experimental fiction-Documentary on the black forest
Dir Yassin - Political documentary
Isaura - A Dance and Video Performance in collaboration with Tamar Borer.
Saras and Bobs – video and photography instellation of three parts.
Curator: Pietro Franesi
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